WAEC Government Past Questions & Answers - Page 204

A recall election (also called a recall referendum or representative recall) is a procedure by which, in certain polities, voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before that official's term has ended.

Enfranchisement - a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)

Enfranchisement The act of making free (as from Slavery); giving a franchise or freedom to; investiture with privileges or capacities of freedom, or municipal or political liberty. Conferring the privilege of voting upon classes of persons who have not previously possessed such.

Merits of one-party system:

(1) It helps in the establishment of stable administration which further helps in the progress of the country. The progress of the Soviet Union is a glaring example in this regard.

(2) In this system, formation and execution of long-term planning is possible.

(3) The country achieves remarkable economic progress as the Government ends the conflicts among all the classes and it devotes its entire energy, towards the increase of production in the country.

(4) The administration becomes efficient because all the powers are concentrated in the hands of one leader and there favouritism, nepotism and black-marketing are banished altogether.

(5) There is a unity and discipline in the country.

(6) Time is not wasted in unnecessary criticism and propaganda.

Limitations to Human Rights

1. Civil unrest – Whenever there is riot or crisis, there will not be freedom of movement.
2. Some people’s movement can be limited if they have a case in the law court.
3. A citizen who is infected with deadly diseases may be isolated for treatment in order not to infect other people thereby denying him/ her freedom of movement.
4. A person’s land and property can be destroyed if built on the wrong place or if government wants to make some construction of roads or other project that will be useful for the public.
5. A person who is found guilty of a murder case can lose his/her right to life.

A constitution is an aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of entity, and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed.